Adjustable support



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ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT Filed Jan. 30, 1948 4 INVENTOR. HEWETT WARRENS 3 2 BY GEO, W. SCHUMACHER f'" g N ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 31, 1950 ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT Hewett Warrens and George William Schumacher, Portland, Oreg.

Application January 30, 1948, Serial No. 5,246

1 Claim.

This invention relates to adjustable supports and is particularly adapted for holding garden hose, table tops, umbrellas and the like.

The primary object of the invention is to pro vide a support having a sub-bracket on the same, which is pivotally mounted to the standard of the support adapted to be adjusted into various angles for supporting garden hose and the like for sprinkling.

A further object of the invention is to provide a support that can be adapted for holding umbrellas, table tops, benches, fishing poles and the like.

Another object of the invention is to design a support of the class described whose supporting feet may be folded so it will lie fiat in storage places.

A still further object of the invention is to provide clamps or clips on the sub-frame whose tension grip may be easily adjusted to the objects to be supported.

These and other incidental objects will be ap parent in the drawings, specification and claim.

Referring to the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of our new and improved adjustable support, the same holding a conventional garden hose.

Figure 2 is a detailed enlarged side partially in section view of the upper end of the support illustrating how the sub-bracket is mounted to the standard of the support.

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail view of the supporting feet in folded position.

Figure 4 is a detail illustrating the method of adjusting the clamps or holding clips to various tensions.

Figure 5 illustrates our new and improved adjustable support supporting a board or table top. Referring more specifically to the drawings:

Our new and improved support consists of an upright standard I, having the transverse foot members 2 and 3 fixed thereto in the following manner. The foot member 2 may or may not be welded to the standard at 4. The lower end of the standard extends through the foot member 3 at 5 having a wing nut B threaded thereon for holding the foot member 3 at right angles to the member 2 while being used as illustrated in Figures 1 and 5, also holding the same relative to one another as illustrated in Figure 3 while in folded position.

Mounted to the upper end of the standard I is a clamp 1 which may be threaded to the upper end of the standard at 8, referring to Figure 2. The socket is comprised of a main body member 9 having a loose socket member ID clamped thereto by the bolt l l and wing nut i2. Nesting within the socket of the members 9 and ID is a ball [3 which is fixedly secured or forms part of the bracket member 14. Holding clamps or clips 45 are mounted to the bracket member i l best illustrated in Figure 4 by the adjusting screw it. By adjusting this screw within the bracket M the arms I! of the clips may be adjusted towards or away from one another providing for greater or lesser grip on the object being held, such as the hose i8.

Referring to Figure 5 We illustrate a table top is having a downwardly extending member 2!? adapted to be held between the clips 15. We do not wish to be limited to what we may support by the supporting device, as flag staffs may be clipped on the holding bracket l 4, as this bracket can be adjusted to any angle from right angle to a vertical.

In the operation of our new and improved support the foot members 2 and 3 are adjusted to right angles to one another as illustrated in Figure 1 and the bracket I4 adjusted to the proper angle for which the same is to be adapted and locked in this position. If necessary the clips i 5 may be adjusted relative to the spacing between the arms I! clipping the object to be supported with the proper tension.

What we claim, as new, is:

A supporting device comprising a base and a vertical standard, the upper end of the standard supporting a two-part vertically disposed clamp which includes a fixed element having a cut-out portion to form a shoulder and formed at its upper end with a semi-spherical cup-shaped socket, the inner edge wall of the cup-shaped socket inclining downwardly, the shoulder having a notch, a companion clamping element having a lug seated in the socket in the shoulder, the companion clamping element extending upwardly adjacent the fixed element and formed at its upper end with a semi-spherical cup-shaped socket the inner edge wall of which inclines downwardly, the inclination of the edge portions of the cup-shaped sockets forming an open inclined space when the two clamping elements are assembled together, a screw extending between the two elements, a nut on the screw, a horizontal member, a spherical element depending from the horizontal element and seated in the cups of the clamping elements, and spring clips on and near the ends of the horizontal member, whereby the horizontal support can be rotated in the cups oI the elements and tilted sidewise in the inclined space between the cups.

The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS gggggg ggg giih Burt??? Febfiiim 1,780,163 Anderson Nov. 4, 1930 2,160,426 Archer May 30, 1939 REFERENCES CITED 2,452,116 Felton Oct. 26, 1948 

